5/28/2023 0 Comments Elsa hurricane trackIn southern and eastern New England, the heaviest rains should occur during the day on Friday, tapering off by evening.Įlsa’s rapid motion will help limit total rainfall, but some historic totals are still possible. ![]() High-resolution models suggested on Thursday that a small pocket of particularly heavy rain in the 4-6 inch range could develop over or just inland from New York City, most of it falling between midnight Thursday night and noon Friday. is a corridor of very heavy rain over or near the heavily populated I-95 corridor. The main threat from Elsa’s parting shot at the U.S. (Image credit: NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks ) ![]() Tropical depressions, some of which may have weakened from named-storm status but still had names, are not shown. The only three passing over or near the city while at tropical storm strength were Brenda (1960), Bertha (1996), and Fay (2020). Tracks of all tropical storms and hurricanes during the month of July passing within 160 nautical miles (173 miles or 278 kilometers) of New York City in records going back to 1851. In NOAA’s hurricane database going back to 1851, only a handful of tropical storms (and no hurricanes) have made landfall during July from New York City across Long Island and southern New England. landfall or two as a tropical storm, perhaps over the Delmarva Peninsula of Maryland and Virginia and/or over Long Island, New York. Even so, it will take a few hours for Elsa to transition into a post-tropical storm, so it is possible that Elsa will make another U.S. Once Elsa gets past the Outer Banks of North Carolina, sea surface temperatures along its path will drop below the threshold of 26 degrees Celsius (79 degrees Fahrenheit) typically needed to sustain a tropical cyclone. ![]() through Friday and southeast Canada into Saturday. Forecast for ElsaĪ strong steering current at upper levels will take Elsa on a straightforward, high-confidence northeast track near the coastline of the northeast U.S. Media requests for Jeff Masters and Bob HensonĢ swirls /TsueMRdWHX- Stu Ostro JA visible satellite animation from July 8, 2021, shows a low pressure system over South Texas bringing torrential rains and flooding to Rockport and Corpus Christi (left) and Tropical Storm Elsa over the Carolinas (right).
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